65 degrees and high clouds kind of shading out the stars. Getting down to 56 tonight. Spring peepers and and crickets are singing but no fireflies to report on tonight. A pleasant evening.
Went down to the Park and started to read a new book I got out of the library called Gun Guys. Kind of a book written by an urban liberal who falls love with guns. It gets dark early, so I brought my laptop down there and played on it until 9:15 pm after too dark to read. It’s nice having WiFi at the park. Will come in handy on Saturday when the library closes a 5 pm.
This weekend staying in town. Probably Hudson River fishing on Friday night. Doing an oil change on Saturday and plan to figure out which of the electrical connections ain’t working in the fuse holder. Something ain’t right because the second battery ain’t charging. Also need to fix the truck cap support. Hopefully next weekend will head out of town if the weather is nice.
Took off August 20-23rd to head up to the Otter Creek area of the Western Adirondacks. Want to spend more time exploring some of the trails up there, the Whetstone Gulf and the Whetstone Reservoir. Should be a nice weekend. Next weekend maybe is Schoharie and swimming at Mine Kill State Park swimming pool.
Started researching jobs, apartments, land, and recreation in Scranton PA. I have been thinking on and off about moving to Pennsylvania where they have better gun laws, lower taxes, and a less anti-rural culture. PA allows open carry and concealed carry licenses is reasonable to obtain. No special permits for handguns besides the normal background check. They seem to leave homesteaders and farmers alone unlike NY were Humane Society is crawling up folks asses. Lots of backcountry land up that way if you don’t mind abandoned clum piles. Open burning within reason is allowed in most rural areas as long as it’s not too much a nuisance.
I have been evaluating Pennsylvania cities for some time, and while Harrisburg was at one time top of my list, Erie and Scranton have risen on my list as I would rather live in a smaller more rural area that is less political than Albany. In some ways Erie has better recreation opportunities as closer to Allegheny National Forest but Scranton is closer to where I live now for further evaluation and ease of move and jobs. Potter County and Coudersport would be cool but I think good jobs in small towns are even harder to find.
Land prices around Scranton are much cheaper, which makes owning land more practical. My goal is eventually live off grid or at least have enough land to shoot guns out back, have fires and burn things, and hobby farm. Scranton keeps the wild Western Catskills and Tioga County PA region fairly close plus the Delaware Water Gap. I don’t have a job yet and have only started my research. But looking at job postings. And I haven’t been to the city to see what it’s really like but I have been studying maps carefully. Probably not making the jump this year but might take a day trip or two and interview for a few jobs.
